Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!

Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.

the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.

Beauty is boring because it is predictable.